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| Author: | LanceK [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Help with a guitar ID> |
A person reached out to me this week and asked if I could help her id her grandfathers guitar. Here are a few pics. I have no idea what it is. Attachment: IMG_4317.JPG Attachment: IMG_4318.JPG Attachment: FullSizeRender.jpg
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| Author: | Michael.N. [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
It's a Pandora/Bandora. Low tension metal strings in 'courses'. Sometimes have fanned frets (nothing new there). Nice sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaprVGez6ns |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
Michael.N. wrote: It's a Pandora/Bandora. Low tension metal strings in 'courses'. Sometimes have fanned frets (nothing new there). Nice sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaprVGez6ns Thanks Michael! |
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| Author: | Michael.N. [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
Technically it might be an Orpharion. I suppose they all come under the Cittern family of instruments. Not cheap if it has been made by one of the known makers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmGbbWWaXwY |
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| Author: | whiskywill [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
This lists a lot of stringed instruments but I can't find any with 14 strings. http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/ |
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| Author: | sdsollod [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
I thought it might be a lute... |
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| Author: | Michael.N. [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpharion |
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| Author: | Kevin Mason [ Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Help with a guitar ID> |
Michael is absolutely right. This is a copy of an Elizabethan instrument called a Bandora (or Pandora). It is similar to an Orpharion except it is larger and tuned like a guitar rather than a lute. Depending on where your friends father is from, it could have been made in England or here in the U.S. The instrument was used most commonly in what is called the English Consort--Pandora, Lute, Viola da Gamba, Cittern, Flute, and Violin. If you want to find out more, post your pictures on the Facebook page of the Lute Society of America. You might also try to contact Lyle Nordstrom who teaches early music in Maryland I believe. He used to be the Bandora player in a group called the Musicians of Swanne Alley with well known lute virtuoso Paul O'Dette. |
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